'''otso''' is the [[Quenya]] word for the number seven. The ordinal of ''osto'' is presumed to be '''''[[Quenya numbers#Ordinals|otya]]'''''.

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'''otso''' is the [[Quenya]] word for the number seven.

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==Etymology==

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It comes from the [[PQ]] [[root]] [[OT]]OS/OTOK<ref>{{HM|LR}}, [[The Etymologies]], OT</ref>

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==Other forms==

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*''[[otosta]], [[osta]](t)'' "one seventh" (1/7)

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*''[[otsea]]'' "seventh"

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==See also==

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*[[Otselen]]

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==Cognates==

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*[[Telerin]] ''[[otos]](o)''

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*[[Sindarin]] ''[[odog]]

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==Inspiration==

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Otso is one of the many words for <i>karhu</i> ('bear') in Finnish. [[Karhu]] is also the name of the frequent polar bear character in [[The Father Christmas Letters]] which Tolkien wrote to his children during the years 1920-1943<ref>W.G. Hammond - C. Scull, [[J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator]], Boston - New York 1995, 69, fig. 66</ref>

Otso is one of the many words for karhu ('bear') in Finnish. Karhu is also the name of the frequent polar bear character in The Father Christmas Letters which Tolkien wrote to his children during the years 1920-1943[2]